Toy moving-picture machine



' QZAU C. E. FLYNN. TOY MOVING PICTURE MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 10, 1920.

1,383,095. Paltented June 28, 1921.

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Witiwsses C. E. FLYNN. TOY movme PICTURE MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 10, 1920.

1,383,095. Patented June 28, 1921.

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TOY MOVING PICTURE MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED APR. 10. 1920.

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PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES E. FLYNN, OF DE BEQUE, COLORADO.

TOY MOVING-PICTURE MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 28, 1921.

Application filed April 10, 1920. Serial No. 372,871.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES E. FLYNN, a citizen of the United States, residing at De Beque, in the county of Mesa and State of Colorado, have invented new and useful Improvements in Toy Moving-Picture Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the invention is to provide a cut-out toy suitable for publication in newspaper or newspaper supplements, magazines, booksand the like, and designed when out out and set up in accordance with directions, to serve as a means of exhibiting after the manner of commercial moving picture machines, aprogressive scene in connection with a web or tape serving in lieu of a film and adapted also to be produced incut-out sectional form for arrangement in operative condition by the'purchaser of the paper or magazine as a source of entertainment or as a means of conveying instructive information, and to this end the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank from which the frame of the machine is constructed.

Fig. 2 is aside view of the device in its out out and set up condition.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of the same.

Fig. 4 is a section on the plane indicated by the line 44 of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a transverse section on the plane indicated by the line 5 5 of Fig. 2,

Fig. 6 is a plan view of the blank from which the web or tape is formed.-

In the illustrated embodiment of the invention the blank forming the main portion of the cut out, from which the frame of the machine is produced, consists of a base 10 from which extend the foldable side members 11, adapted to be folded on the dotted lines 12 of Fig. 1 and respectively provided with parallel extensions 13 adapted to be folded upon the dotted lines 14 to overlap terminally as indicated in Figs. 3 and 4 when the device is set up, the overlapping extremities being secured together by paste or other adhesive, and preferably being gummed as shown at 15 to facilitate this connection. These terminally attached extensions or arms 13 thus form a transverse brace the operator.

between the side members 11 which are designed for arrangement in planes perpendicula-r to that of the base 10.

Also extending from the base or body portion of the blank near the end opposite from the side members 11 are ears 16 which are adapted to be folded upon the dotted lines 17 to lie in contact with the upper surface of the base member 10 as shown in Figs. 2 and 3 and also secured by paste or other adhesive and preferably having their originally upper surfaces gum-med as indicated by the feed lines in Fig. 1.

Extending from one side of the base or body portion of the blank preferably adjacent to the ears 16 is an arm 18 which is adapted-to be folded upon the dotted lines 19 to overlie the upper surface of the base 10 as indicated in Figs. 2, 3 and 5, the free terminal being secured in place to the adjacent edge of the base by means of a wire clip such as a paper fastener 20, it being obvious that other means may be employed for this purpose as may be found convenient by The cut-out element 21 consists of a substantially rectangular body portion having edge projections 22 and terminal projections 23, the latter forming trunnions provided with redu'ced portions or necks 24, adapted to be mounted in bearing slots 25 which are formed in the extremities of the side members 11 when the frame is set up as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and 26 and 27 are cut-out guide members adapted to be engaged respectively with holes or openings 26 and 27 punched in the side members near the fold lines 12. v

While it is obvious that any extended strip or tape carrying a pictorial display as of mobile objects arranged serially and progressively to indicate successive positions or postures of the object may be used in connection with the apparatus, it is designed that the saine shall be published as a cutout adjunct to the features above described, as shown in Fig. 6 of the drawing wherein the succession of pictures are arranged upon strip sections indicated at 28 and adapted after being cut out to be terminally attached in series, for which purpose the extremities thereof width of the sections and hence of the continuous strip when the sections have been secured together, serially, being such as to fit in the Spac s between the guide projec- 108 are gummed as shown at 29, the

tions 22 of the reel member formed by the substantially rectangular body portion 21 having the terminal trunnions 23, and when the reel member has been mounted as above noted in the bearings formed by the slot 25 in the side members of the main blank, the strip forming the web or tape may be extended thereover and between the guide members 26 and 27 and the free or front end of the sets or series or may be extended under the arm 18 and over the ears 16, said arm 18 forming a tension member to regulate the movement of the strip as it is drawn toward the operator, thus causing the rotation of the reel and the successive exposure of the pictorial representations upon the web or tape. As shown clearly in Fig. 2 the continuous and relative rapid feeding of the web or tape will cause a sufliciently rapid succession of exposures of the picture elements, by reason of the turning over of the reel, to give the impression of a moving picture under conditions which will prove both entertaining and instructive so that the device will have particular value as a toy for juvenile construction and amusement to which different series of pictures may readily be applied or adapted as the ingenuity of the operator is stimulated.

Having thus described the invention what is claimed is:

1. A toy cut-out comprising a blank having a base and connected foldable side members, provided with registering bearings, a reel having a fiat body and terminal trunnions to engage said bearings and a flexible strip engageable over the reel and having mobile objects depicted thereon in progressively different positions.

2. A toy cut-out comprising a blank having a base and connected foldable side members provided with registering bearings, a

reel having a flat body and terminal trunnions to engage said bearings, and a flexible strip engageable over the reel and having mobile objects depicted thereon in progressively difi'erent positions, and arranged at intervals adapting them for successive exposure in traversing the reel.

3. A toy cut-out comprising a blank having a base and connected foldable side members provided with registering bearings, a reel having a flat body and terminal trunnions to engage said bearings, and a flexible strip having mobile objects depicted thereon in progressively different positions, and arranged respectively in consecutive spaces corresponding with the width of the reel body.

4. A toy cut-out comprising a blank having a base and connected foldable side members provided with registering bearings, a reel having a flat body and terminal trunnions to engage said bearings, and a flexible strip for traversing said reel, consisting of terminally attachable cut-out sections.

5. A toy cut-out comprising a blank having a base and connected foldable side members provided with registering openings, a reel having a flat body and terminal trunnions to engage said bearings, and a flexible strip for traversing said reel, consistin of terminally attachable cut-out sections aving serially arranged pictures including mobile objects depicted on each section in progressively difierent positions.

6. A cut-out comprising a blank having a base and opposite flexible side members provided with transversely registeringbearings, said side members having terminally attachable extensions to provide a transverse brace between the side members, a reel having a flat body and terminal trunnions for reception by said bearings and a flexible strip engageable over the reel and having mobile objects depicted thereon in progressively different positions.

7 A toy cut-out comprising a blank having a base provided with laterally foldable guide ears and opposite foldable side members provided with transversely registering bearings, said side members having terminally attachable extensions to provide a transverse brace between the side members, a reel having a flat body and terminal trunnions for reception by said bearings and a flexible strip engageable over the reel and having mobile objects depicted thereon in progressively different positions.

8. A cut-out comprising a blank having a base provided with a foldable tension ele ment for arrangement in parallelism with the base, and opposite foldable side members provided with transversely registering bearings, said side members having terminally attachable extensions to provide a transverse brace between the side members, a reel having a flat body and terminal trunnions for reception by said bearings, and a flexible strip engageable over the reel and having mobile objects depicted thereon in progressively different positions.

9. A cut-out comprising a blank having a base and opposite foldable side members provided with transversely registering bearings, side members having terminally attachable extensions to provide a transverse brace between the side members, a reel having a flat body and terminal trunnions for reception by said bearings, transverse guide members for terminal engagement with the side members in parallelism with the axis of the reel, and a flexible strip engageable over the reel and havingmobile objects depicted thereon in progressively different positions.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

CHARLES E. FLYN N. 

